officialLanguage

P236
predicate

Indicates that a particular language has been formally designated by an authority as the official language used for government, legal, or administrative purposes in a given jurisdiction.

All labels observed (178)

Label Occurrences
officialLanguage canonical 23,795
hasOfficialLanguage 16,380
languageOfAdministration 2,109

Description generation (PDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the predicate name and this instruction.

Instruction
Given a predicate that represents a relationship or action between entities, generate a one-sentence description explaining its meaning.  
# Instructions
Focus on describing the relationship, not the entities themselves. 
# Response Format
Begin the description with \' Indicates...\'
Input
Predicate: officialLanguage
Generated description
Indicates that a particular language has been formally designated by an authority as the official language used for government, legal, or administrative purposes in a given jurisdiction.

Sample triples (46,259)

Subject Object
Chirang district Bodo
Baksa district Assamese
Baksa district Bodo
Harghita County Romanian
Olt County Romanian
Sfântu Gheorghe Romanian
Lipetsk Oblast Russian
Province of Valparaíso Spanish
Veracruz City Spanish
Dorado municipality Spanish
Dorado municipality English
Mameyal Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mameyal English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mariana Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mariana English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Los Naranjos Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Los Naranjos English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Zanjas Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vega Alta Spanish
Vega Alta English
Franklin County Courthouse English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
Ordino Catalan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Jinotepe Spanish
Barabanki Hindi
Silvassa Gujarati
Silvassa Hindi
Silvassa English
Laon French
Drogenbos Dutch
Hafnarfjörður Icelandic
Carlisle constituency
surface form: Carlisle (UK Parliament constituency)
English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialMaterials"
Chicxulub Pueblo Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Changjiang Road Subdistrict Chinese
Campeche state
surface form: Campeche
Spanish
Duchy of Mantua Italian
Pontifical Academy for Life Italian
Pontifical Academy for Life Latin
Pontifical Academy for Life English
Tehsil Municipal Administration Haripur Urdu language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Urdu
Tehsil Municipal Administration Haripur English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pakistani people Urdu language via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
surface form: Urdu
Pakistani people Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
Pakistani people English
Choiseul Province English
Severnoye Butovo District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
State of Württemberg-Hohenzollern German
Moxico Province Portuguese
Expo 81 (Plovdiv) Bulgarian via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
Tsukuba Science City Japanese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Aberdeen City council area English